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TABLE OF CONTENTS
August 23, 2004 | Volume 101, Issue 7
August 23, 2004 [This article consists of photographs--see below]
August 23, 2004 The NFL
A trim Ron Dayne looked like his old self in the Giants' win over K.C.
Atlanta's New Offense
The Indians are ahead of schedule in their run at the AL Central leader
August 23, 2004 Atlanta Braves
August 23, 2004 Tampa's Rookie Shortstop
August 23, 2004 IS EDGAR A HALL OF FAMER?
Why do you always have to be so negative? Why not mention what I did right?
August 23, 2004 AS THE OLYMPICS opened in Athens last week, SI's 46-member Games crew fanned out over the baking Greek landscape. "With more than 20 sports going on at once and news breaking all the time, it's...
August 23, 2004 Covering Lance
August 23, 2004 LETTERS
Athens doesn't have to be terrorized to be terrifying. Signs on most toilets--at the airport, in hotels, at the Olympic Stadium--warn, do not flush paper. (And you think wondering where to put...
August 23, 2004 | Don Yaeger National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Democratic consultant James Carville rarely see eye-to-eye, especially on USC and the Fighting Irish Interviews by Don Yaeger
August 23, 2004 How They'll Look According to SI's JOHNNYDAMONIZER 4000
August 23, 2004 The NHL declines to get involved in yet another star's gambling mess
August 23, 2004 0.14 Decrease in Red Sox righthander Derek Lowe's ERA, from 5.47 to 5.33, when centerfielder Johnny Damon asked to be charged with an error on a play that had been ruled a hit in a 14--4 win over...
August 23, 2004 Bid adieu to international soccer, midfielder Zinedine Zidane, 32. The three-time world player of the year last week announced his retirement from the French national team, which he led to the...
August 23, 2004 | BILL SCHEFT (Note to reader: For the next two weeks, if you miss any of the jokes, they will be replayed at 11 p.m. on Bravo and 4 a.m. on Telemundo.)
The 33-year-old Greco-Roman wrestler is in Athens and will begin defending his Olympic superheavyweight title on Aug. 23.
August 23, 2004 When she returns from Athens, where she is leading the U.S. softball team in its quest to win its third straight Olympic gold medal, Jennie Finch (page 59) will have little time to relax. She'll...
August 23, 2004 The president of Turkmenistan, a poor desert nation in Central Asia, has ordered that a palace made of ice be built so "our children can learn to ski."
August 23, 2004 South Carolina football coach, on the one writer who voted the Gamecocks No. 1 in the SEC preseason poll: "He probably voted with a crayon."
WHAT TO WATCH AND WATCH FOR
• ED (SPEEDO) JAGER knows he'll never be a NASCAR driver, but if he can take his lovingly tended, souped-up old wrecks and "go out and blow people away" on the national demolition derby circuit,...
August 23, 2004 What was the most memorable moment from the first weekend of the Olympics?
Kenneth Hall, BATON ROUGE
Natalie Coughlin showed her colors: gold and silver
The powerful men's and women's eights want no less than gold
For the U.S. water polo team, a brutal training regimen paid off with a last-minute
The gold went to Japan, but the U.S. men's gymnastics team, led by the dazzling Hamm twins, were thrilled to be on the podium at last
August 23, 2004 | Don Yaeger In case you were wondering why some of the athletes and officials marching in the Parade of Nations looked so somber last Friday night, the answer is that as many as 300 of them actually were...
Limping and out of medal contention after the falling barbell on her second lift struck her left leg, Tara Cunningham (inset) could have passed on her final lift, a clean and jerk of 95 kilograms...
Beach volleyball shakes up its show
While getting spanked by Puerto Rico in its first game, the U.S. basketball team played like an NBA team--the Clippers--and the Americans' nightmare in Athens may have just begun
Diana Taurasi isn't used to being a sub. No problem
Three shutout wins can't erase a lingering sense of loss
Yi Jianlian's age is a mystery, even to his teammates on China's basketball squad. "He is 16, you say?" asks Yao Ming, the team's star center. "I thought he was 17." Some think Yi (inset, 11,...
In its first Olympic baseball game ever, Hellas, as the blue script on Greece's classic if not classical white uniforms proclaimed, scratched out two singles, made two errors and lost 11--0 on...
August 23, 2004 | Don Yaeger Bookies with the Antigua-based site WagerOnSports.com have posted odds not only on Olympic events but also on which country would be the first caught up in a drug scandal. The favorite was China,...
Last Saturday a 5'5", 132-pound ball of aggression named Tadahiro Nomura (inset) became the first three-time Olympic judo champion--yet was overshadowed by a Japanese teammate. Nomura, 29, needed...
Because of construction delays, some reporters and USOC officials have been put up in a maternity hospital near the Olympic Stadium. That's no hardship: The rooms are spotless, there's a florist...
In synchronized diving the Chinese still rule the pool
The boxing venue is, alone among the mostly magnificent Olympic architecture, nondescript and well off the beaten path. This, of course, is the controlling metaphor for the U.S. program, which...
While the Games might have begun with a few letdowns--the hoops fiasco, Michael Phelps's losses, the acres of empty seats--one pleasant surprise has been NBC's exhaustive coverage. In contrast to...
Good food, bad movies--the athletes' colossal compound has it all
Two improbable soccer wins raised spirits and worked as a salve for past pain and future uncertainty
In an ambivalent Athens one message is clear: At these Games restraint could be as precious as gold for the U.S. and its athletes
With a dogged playoff win in the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, Vijay Singh removed any doubt that he is the world's best player
De La Salle High is a Catholic boys' school in a quiet Northern California suburb, with modest facilities, unassuming student-athletes--and a football team that has won 151 games in a row
De La Salle copes with a death in the football family
Let's go back-back-back through 25 years with ESPN's Chris (Boomer) Berman, whose outsized enthusiasms have stamped his network, sports and television
August 23, 2004 [This article consist of photos--See below]
August 23, 2004 OLYMPICS Medal Man How Many Records Can MICHAEL PHELPS Break?
August 23, 2004 INSIDE
Dedicated fantasy football players watch games all Sunday afternoon, watch highlights of those games Sunday night, lose an hour of work cross-referencing box scores Monday morning and are glued...
Frustrated with your favorite team? In this game no one is more powerful than a fantasy owner
No matter how much you prepare for your fantasy draft, it's almost impossible to select the perfect team. But it's fun to imagine what your squad might look like if you had the luxury of picking...
It's highly unlikely that your fantasy team roster will end up looking exactly like our Dream Team. But there's no need to fret, because there isn't that much difference between the best player...
Saving their best for last at Whistling Straits, Chris DiMarco and Chris Riley played their way onto a U.S. Ryder Cup side badly in need of their help
For the handful of natives playing in the Russian Open, simply making the cut would have been a major accomplishment
Vijay's victory, Smilin' Marvin and Ryder Cup fallout from the PGA Championship
Michelle Wie's struggles to close out her matches at the U.S. Women's Amateur show that she should be learning to win against players closer to her own age and skill level.
After struggling with his driver all weekend, Vijay Singh confidently ripped a 325-yard tee shot on the first playoff hole to set up his victory
During a Wednesday practice round Darren Clarke had a hole in one on Whistling Straits' 223-yard 17th, prompting his caddie to yell, "Not today!" ... Pete Dye, who designed Whistling Straits,...
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WHEN I was a kid I dreamed about becoming a Tour player, but by the time I turned 24, in 1974, I still had a two handicap and I was managing the card room at the Barcelona Hotel in Miami Beach....
• HERB KOHLER We talked a lot about fixtures--his favorite subject.
August 23, 2004 EVERYONE KNOWS the Masters has a champions' dinner, but less well-known is that the PGA has one too. At the dinner the previous year's winner gives all the past champions a gift, paid for by the...
August 23, 2004 2004 PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
Short on confidence, lacking motivation and with no one to turn to, Tiger Woods has lost his mojo
ACCORDING TO pro golf's measuring stick, the World Ranking, Tiger Woods has been the best player in the world for a record 332 weeks, but Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh have closed the...
The Oakland Raiders, of all teams, have a host of former players in prominent NFL positions
Even before the arrival of its major league teams, California played an integral role in baseball's development
Far off the beaten path, in the Italian minor leagues
Michael Phelps's ambitious gold rush hit a couple of bronze bumps, but he remained the center of attention as his medal haul grew, befitting the world's most versatile swimmer
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